Galway man seeks to reunite Crosserlough player with 1955 medal

Paul Fitzpatrick

A kind-hearted retired taxi driver from Galway is keen to reunite a Cavan footballer with a long lost medal.

The man, who doesn’t wish to be named, discovered a Cavan Minor Football Championship medal from 1955 in his taxi after picking up a passenger from the Galway Races in 1994.

He put it away for safekeeping and only found it again a couple of years ago – and now he’s on the hunt to find out the owner!

“I cleaned the taxi ever morning and this one morning I came across the medal,” he told The Anglo-Celt.

“I thought it was from a lady’s chain at first but when I looked closer I realised it was a football medal. I put it away and then it went out of my mind totally for 20 years before I found it again when tidying at home.”

Crosserlough were the winners of the 1955 MFC. Three of the team have passed away in the meantime, The Anglo-Celt understands, but the man who has the medal in his possession is keen to identify whoever may have lost it and return it to them.

“It may be a son or daughter of grand-child at this stage but I’d love to see them get the medal back,” he said.

“It could have been that one of the players regularly attended the races or remembers losing it.”

If you think the medal may belong to you or a family member, please get in touch with this newspaper.